Since the last few years we have all gotten in the habit of creating acronyms that are either rhyming or have a meaning when expanded and even otherwise. This was the reason why I chose to title this piece the way I did. Until January 2020, the world was abuzz with things happening, old and … [Read more…]
Flipping through the dusty pages of a ragged book, I found the petals of a rose I had plucked several years back when I was still in school. I remember how we were forbidden to do so and how thrilling it had been then. Breaking rules has always been exhilarating, isn’t it? But how often … [Read more…]
“Where are you from?” Does this question ring bells in your ears and makes your heart pound because you do not know how exactly to answer this question and not sound straight out of one of those fictions. If such is your case, you have my sympathy. People have constantly asked where I was from. … [Read more…]
How does it happen that you remember someone out of nowhere and they spring up in your life all of a sudden? Of late, this has been true with me at least. The other day while looking at some of my school certificates I happened to remember the person associated with the organization of a … [Read more…]
[On her son’s birthday while he was in college, she wrote him a letter. Today, on his 50th birthday, he reminisced the last 33 years and how those words had made him what he was. That was the best gift his mom had given him.] Dear Son, Happy Birthday! Hope you liked the presents. … [Read more…]
Part I Girls with henna on their palms, exquisitely designed, beautiful girls adorning happy smiles – Boys wandering around women section in malls, taking help of any/every possible female to get something girly and gracious enough – Bikanerwala, Haldirams and Bengali Sweets, the famous sweet shop chains, having a riot like situation, minting money – … [Read more…]
The idea of India as understood today is quite different from the idea that prevailed at the time of independence, when our forefathers were imagining an Indian nation, freshly out from the shackles of the Raj. 67 years down the line, the idea that helped shape the nation at the time of its birth appears … [Read more…]
Back to Delhi, my tryst with the Delhi Metro is yet again in action. This public transport presents various insights to eyes that try to soak it all wherever they go, whatever they see. Of late, the subjects of my interest were mothers and daughters who travelled together, huddling in ever increasing, swiftly changing, of … [Read more…]
I am the one. Who dances in your baraat to entertain you. And make myself a spectacle. You try to come close to me and touch me. You seek entertainment out of me, not my dance. And pass lewd remarks on me. You, the ones in suits – prim and proper. While I dance, you … [Read more…]
It was a hot summer evening when a thought dawned upon me. I was browsing articles on the internet much against the notion of my family who thought that I did nothing but surf social networking websites all day long. I had never bothered to explain them, nonetheless it did leave me irritated at times. … [Read more…]